Quotes About Stress

As far as Leni could tell, adults were edgy in general, and no wonder.

fighting the tidal wave of panic.

upset. Perhaps it is because you have not been sleeping

It was the holiday season, the time of year that turned women into card-carrying split personalities.

Nervous people make poor listeners.

In a study funded by IBM in 2011, Mexico City was considered the major city with the world's worst traffic, as judged by drivers' level of suffering, stress and loss of time, all consequences of speed bumps.

The threat of violence can be almost as stressful as actually suffering or witnessing violence.

The stress of resisting unhealthy peer pressure can be buffered by good family relationships and a high self-esteem, and it is often those adolescents with neither who succumb to unhealthy pressure from their peers.

white! Total overload! The hangar sounds

Drop Your still dews of quietness, Till all our strivings cease: Take from our souls the strain and stress; And let our ordered lives confess The beauty of Your peace. Breathe through the pulses of desire Your coolness and Your balm; Let sense be mum, its beats expire: Speak through the earthquake, wind and fire, O still small voice of calm!

Another intruder that plagues our good health is sleeplessness. Insomnia is much like constipation in that stress or nervous tension can bring it on or aggravate it until there's almost no coping with it. That's why you find sleeping pills in so many medicine cabinets next to the laxatives.

OVERALL, THE MORE STRESSFUL MY LIFE WAS BECOMING, THE MORE DETERMINED I was to get it together, stop acting like a passenger, and climb back behind the wheel where I belonged

I say that our system of tests and grades, as it now exists, is one source of the low yield of great men from our universities. The marking system is a traumatic experience from which most students emerge with a deep determination never to get into a situation where they can be marked again. They just won't ever again take a chance.

Well, you know, your mom gets like this sometimes," Simon said. "Like when she breathes in or out.

Do you ever feel like screaming?' Clary asked him [Jace]. 'Some of the time.

What have you been doing to yourself, Belinda? Girl, you've got more knots in your shoulders than are listed in the Boy Scout handbook.

powerlessness in a relationship is one of the main causes of stress or anxiety. Making psychological changes also provokes anxiety. It's very hard to break a habit, especially when you've adapted yourself to a particular pattern that, however maladaptive, has kept you alive. The unconscious is powerful, and it will fight to the death to keep an old pattern in place.

If a person is continually stressed, the stress uses up the immune system and there's nothing left to fight cancer. (Research has shown that children who suffer abuse are about 50 percent more likely to get cancer than other children.)

Why have boundaries if everyone is going to drive through them, leaving nothing but rubble? No one's going to do what I want. Why should they?" Laura had just perfectly defined powerlessness, and powerlessness in a relationship is one of the main causes of stress or anxiety.

When people share their feelings, they feel better, less stressed and less anxious. If you plan on having a life partner, it's emotional intimacy that will be the glue that holds you together long after the physical intimacy fades.

People who have PTSD are hyper-alert. Their immune system never rests—it's seen so much danger that it's scanning the environment constantly.

There are two types of personalities, Type A and Type B. Whereas Type B's are laid-back and non-competitive, Type A's are characterized by ambition, aggression, and a need for control. (This is a broad generalization and many people lie somewhere between A and B.) Type A's are champing at the bit, and that drive can translate to stress; indeed, these traits are often associated with stress-related ailments.

I know what the word stress means but I don't know exactly how it feels. I don't think I have it. I just keep on keeping on, surrounded by the village idiots.

Madeline could still regress. When she's tired, stressed, has a trigger, or is facing some adversity, her symptoms, mostly workaholism, can resurface.